Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate

by Thomas Baines

TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

1. Footnotes have been moved from the middle of the text to just before appendix.

2. Other than the corrections listed below, printer's inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and ligature usage have been retained:

"the the" corrected to "the" (page 6)
"it" corrected to "its" (page 13)
"on" corrected to "of" (page 28)
"notwithsanding" corrected to "notwithstanding" (page 32)